Now, August is a man of action, not words. He’s going through a language explosion right now, picking up a new word every other day or so, but I was surprised at breakfast the other day when I realized he was trying to tell a knock knock joke.

Hilarious. My (otherwise) smart five-year-old cannot comprehend joke punchlines. Her knock-knock jokes are SO BAD–but I felt more hope for her future at cocktail parties when her friend told an equally terrible knock knock joke. I guess it takes a while to understand word play.

Somewhere over christmas, my 3 year old picked up the following joke:
“What snowmans eat?”
…
“Snowflaaaaaaaaaaakes”
Never gets old, apparently. I tried to adjust it to “What do snowmen eat for breakfast?” but he likes his version better :)

I am more than seven times Eleanor’s age and I still can’t tell knock knock jokes properly. On one unintentionally hilarious occasion I got the punchline and the “who’s there?” line mixed up, and the joke was so much funnier.

My two are telling knock knock jokes all the time too! They usually make me tell one. And I’ve found saying something like “chicken” then clucking like a chicken gets the best laugh. Such a cute phase!

Hahah, they are too cute. I love the knock knock jokes kids come up with. My daughter’s favorite joke, and the one she says a million times..”why did the banana go to the doctor? , “because he didn’t peel well”… she literally falls on the floor hysterically laughing.